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Hotels & licensing, 1954

1,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 62

Carruthers To Start Work In Hotel To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 1

Jimmy Carruthers, former world bantamweight boxing champion, will begin work as a cellarman in the…

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"No Delivery" Threat To Publicans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 1

The Federated Liquor Trades Union would not deliver beer to hotels which continue to employ…

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Decision on Hotel Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 7

The City Council finance committee yesterday recommended council acceptance of the highest tenders for the licences of two council-owned hotels…

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Council Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 5

The fully City Council is certain to endorse the leasing of two council hotels in Sydney for…

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Close voting Council Not to Run Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Thurs. -- Newcastle City Council has decided not to take over control or to manage the Central Hotel which it owns. The hotel is conducted…

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Council Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 5

The fully City Council is certain to endorse the leasing of two council hotels in Sydney for…

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News From North Close voting Council Not to Run Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Thurs. -- Newcastle City Council has decided not to take over control or to manage the Central Hotel which it owns. The hotel is conducted…

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Council Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 5

The fully City Council is certain to endorse the leasing of two council hotels in Sydney for…

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Close voting Council Not to Run Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 13

NEWCASTLE, Thurs. -- Newcastle City Council has decided not to take over control or to manage the Central Hotel which it owns. The hotel is conducted…

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Booroorban's Hotel and Some Links with a Distant Past

The Land · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 4

IT may be that you don't know the Royal Mail Hotel at Booroorban, near Hay. It is the first hotel…

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Our Wild Flowers in Famous Hotel

The Land · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 7

When Mr. Henry Parry, a Gosford quarry proprietor, called at the celebrated Raffles Hotel,…

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Fire destroys tree-top hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 6

NAIROBI, Thurs.--Fire last night destroyed the tree-top hotel where Queen Elizabeth was staying when King George VI died…

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FILMS Hollywood's like a big hotel These days stars just pick up their mail and pack a fresh batch of shirts

The World's News · Saturday 29 May 1954 · page 28

THE most profitable hobby in Hollywood at the moment is travel and certainly everyone seems to be doing it. If a star isn't just…

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Hotels to shut today

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1954 · page 2

All hotels in New South Wales will close today because of the election…

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As The Clock Struck Eight A 25-year-old hotel chef rushed into the Town Hall on the last stroke of eight last night to cast his maiden vote

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 30 May 1954 · page 64

The chef, Brian Gilmour, of Canberra, was the last of about 15,000 people to vote at the Town…

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Amok with Rifle Man fires into hotel

The Sun · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 11

Amok with a rifle in the main street of Tibooburra on Saturday, a man peppered a…

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Farmhand Shot in Hotel Bar

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 12

BROKEN HILL, Sun.--A station hand was wounded with a rifle bullet in the bar of the Family Hotel at Tibooburra yesterday…

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Man Shot In Back In Hotel Bar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 6

BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—A Station hand was shot in the back in the bar of the Family Hotel, Tibooburra, about 240 miles north of Broken Hill late yesterday…

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Council urged to lead in hotel improvement

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Mon. -- The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce thinks the City Council should set on example in the improvement of hotels…

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Court Okays Hotel Plans

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 3

Application for material alterations, costing £48,184, to three hotels owned by Tooth and Co…

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